Mélanie Joseph-Vilain
Biographic Data
| ID | 6890624 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mélanie Joseph-Vilain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mélanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Joseph-Vilain |
| SIGNATURE | JOSEPH-VILAIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Bourgogne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3307-3789 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Power dynamics in speculative forms
Andrea Thorpe, South African London. Writing the Metropolis after 1948
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Les genres littéraires en Afrique du Sud, des lieux de mémoire
Cet article s’appuie sur la notion de « lieu de mémoire », définie par Pierre Nora dans une série d’ouvrages portant sur l’histoire de France, pour analyser la façon dont certains genres littéraires (le roman policier, le « roman de la ferme ») permettent d’explorer le passé dans l’Afrique du Sud post-apartheid. L’objectif est de montrer que ces genres, marqués idéologiquement, permettent d’explorer la mémoire du pays, en particulier certains asp…
À propos de Damon Galgut
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Post-Apartheid Gothic
Post-Apartheid Gothic: White South African Writers and Space analyzes the representation of space in recent works by South African writers. By combining analytical tools borrowed from Gothic studies with geocritical and postcolonial approaches, Mélanie Joseph-Vilain assesses the literary mechanisms utilized by Damon Galgut, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Lauren Beukes, Justin Carwright, and Lynn Freed to negotiate the complexities of post-apartheid identi…
Transatlantic Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
This article compares fictional representations of post-catastrophe worlds in dystopian novels by South African authors Frank Owen and Lauren Beukes, who have chosen to set their fictional representations of a bleak future in the United States of America. The article interrogates this choice and, more generally, the way in which South, North and Afterland articulate the global and the local in their imagined dystopias
The Coordinates of Identity
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Post-Apartheid Gothic
Post-Apartheid Gothic: White South African Writers and Space analyzes the representation of space in recent works by South African writers. By combining analytical tools borrowed from Gothic studies with geocritical and postcolonial approaches, Mélanie Joseph-Vilain assesses the literary mechanisms utilized by Damon Galgut, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Lauren Beukes, Justin Carwright, and Lynn Freed to negotiate the complexities of post-apartheid identi…
Transatlantic Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
This article compares fictional representations of post-catastrophe worlds in dystopian novels by South African authors Frank Owen and Lauren Beukes, who have chosen to set their fictional representations of a bleak future in the United States of America. The article interrogates this choice and, more generally, the way in which South, North and Afterland articulate the global and the local in their imagined dystopias
The Coordinates of Identity
À propos de Damon Galgut
International audience
Les genres littéraires en Afrique du Sud, des lieux de mémoire
Cet article s’appuie sur la notion de « lieu de mémoire », définie par Pierre Nora dans une série d’ouvrages portant sur l’histoire de France, pour analyser la façon dont certains genres littéraires (le roman policier, le « roman de la ferme ») permettent d’explorer le passé dans l’Afrique du Sud post-apartheid. L’objectif est de montrer que ces genres, marqués idéologiquement, permettent d’explorer la mémoire du pays, en particulier certains asp…
Power dynamics in speculative forms
Andrea Thorpe, South African London. Writing the Metropolis after 1948
International audience
Art (5 works) · Art history (2 works) · History (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · African history and culture studies (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Chaos, Complexity, and Education (1 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (1 works) · Critical Realism in Sociology (1 works) · Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies (1 works)